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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 16390213" data-attributes="member: 158020">අලියෙක්_කඩදාසි_විය<img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6389/vi1y.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Life-Sized Elephant<img src="http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6374/kz6z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Switzerland-based origami artist Sipho Mabona  has created a life-sized elephant from just one sheet of paper  measuring 15 by 15 meters. The project was financed through  Internet-crowdfunding site Indiegogo where he raised over $26,000 from  631 funders. A webcam was installed that allowed people to watch the  massive elephant take shape. The elephant, which stands more than 3  meters tall, took a team of nearly a dozen people over four weeks to  create. Mabona had originally expected the attempt to take three to four  people. The work is now on display in the museum KKLB in Beromünster,  Switzerland. Mabona developed the pattern for the elephant in about a month, a  process that was sped up by having already worked out how to make  patterns for origami tigers, bears, and rhinos. Sipho Mabona started  making paper planes when he was just five-years-old. By the time he was  15, Mabona had run out of designs for the planes and so he turned to  other inspirations taking tips from nature and the environment. Each  design can take him a day to as long as six months to develop, working  on and off, while the actual folding process can take up to 20 hours.  The quickest origami Mabona can come up with is Koi carp, but even that  takes him an hour to fold.His incredibly intricate designs  sell for more than $,2400 and are exhibited in galleries in Japan,  Switzerland, Canada, Spain and France. <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-B8lTCr0xxZI/UyLoci3PEfI/AAAAAAAAwvQ/8zbkYiav3U0/mabonaorigami_elephant%25255B5%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ds3pBq8pD5Y/UyLoen5zARI/AAAAAAAAwvY/clU_QHPYGrs/sipho-mabona-elephant-4%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dA4-zeLTDU0/UyLog91Y5wI/AAAAAAAAwvg/x8zb70KXzKA/sipho-mabona-elephant-7%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-jPeCG-5Idh8/UyLoi36W3bI/AAAAAAAAwvo/DNQEuwoe4Ag/sipho-mabona-elephant-3%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BdR4WbXgl6Y/UyLolq5TsTI/AAAAAAAAwvw/lYrxBCwjWmw/sipho-mabona-elephant-2%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-XG2WMxqTb9k/UyLooaxOh9I/AAAAAAAAwv4/5hZ6mRvz8GU/sipho-mabona-elephant-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-jkyHYmTKJdw/UyLoqFTa3tI/AAAAAAAAwwA/4kS0MrpmnOQ/sipho-mabona-elephant-1%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (A small-scale model of the paper elephant.) <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-GoLCup6DVSE/UyLorxa7i-I/AAAAAAAAwwI/hE_rHBSprNI/sipho-mabona-elephant-5%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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